libwww and ssl

I am trying to get w3c to run and retrieve https pages.

I have compiled and created shared libraries from openssl.

After configuring libwww and building w3c and trying https I get the message 
Sorry, can't access resource

http requests work fine though.

has anyone got the ssl working with w3c?

I am on uname -a = SunOS hwds3 5.8 Generic_108528-10 sun4u sparc
SUNW,Sun-Blade-100